Paying a price, at his right hand?

PICTOR IGNOTUS
FLORENCE, 15—

I could have painted pictures like that youth's

Ye praise so. How my soul springs up! No bar

Stayed me—ah, thought which saddens while it soothes!

—Never did fate forbid me, star by star,

To outburst on your night with all my gift

Of fires from God: nor would my flesh have shrunk

From seconding my soul, with eyes uplift

And wide to heaven, or, straight like thunder, sunk